Arlington Mansion and 200 acres of ground immediately surrounding it were designated officially as a military cemetery June 15, 1864, by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery.
Veterans from all the nation's wars are buried in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the Iraq and Afghanistan. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900. Cape Cod stones frame the eternal flame at the grave of J. F. KENNEDY, where the words "with history the final judge of our deeds ..." are quoted from his inaugural addres. NEW PICS > HERE
More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery.
Veterans from all the nation's wars are buried in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the Iraq and Afghanistan. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900. Cape Cod stones frame the eternal flame at the grave of J. F. KENNEDY, where the words "with history the final judge of our deeds ..." are quoted from his inaugural addres. NEW PICS > HERE